Absolute vs. relative paths

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you should use a config file that will be included in each file first line, for example your app look like this

root / App / Plugins

inside your root dir : app-config.php

if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )
    define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . "https://stackoverflow.com/");

now, suppose you have to include a plugin file, so

inside your Plugin dir : my-plugin.php

require_once '../../app-config.php';

now everything below this line can use ABSPATH

example do you want to load an image

<img src="".ABSPATH."Public/images/demo.png" alt=""/>

now, the thing is more simple if your app is designed to automatically load some files like

plugin-widget-1.php

so that everything inside this file or any other file loaded by the my-plugin.php file can use the ABSPATH without include each time the app-config.php file.

with this in mind you can have all the short-hand you want into the app-config.php example

define('UPLOAD_PATH', ABSPATH. 'Public/uploads/');
define('IMAGES_PATH', ABSPATH. 'Public/images/');
define('HELPERS_PATH', ABSPATH. 'App/helpers/');
...

so, now that you have all defined, if you need to move a file, let’s say one folder forward example:

root / App / Plugins / Utils

just inlucde require_once '../../../app-config.php';

obviously i suppose that you are not changing paths each time =) anyway if you need to do so is always more simple to change one file inclusion instead of hundreds.

hope this make sense to you =)

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